CV Professor Amir Harrak 
Education:
Ph.D., Assyriology, University of Toronto, 1987
M.A., Assyriology, University of Toronto, 1981
Licence, Archaeology and Art History, Catholic University of Louvain, 1980
Licence, Oriental Philology, Catholic University of Louvain, 1980
Academic Positions and Professional Employment:
Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
Full Professor, 2006-
Associate Professor, 2000-2005
Assistant Professor, 1995-2000
Assistant Professor (CLTA), 1990-1995
Instructor, 1988-1990
Department of History, York University
Instructor, 1988
Research Specialization:
Semitic languages: Syriac; Aramaic (Epigraphic and biblical); Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian); biblical Hebrew; Classical Arabic; lexicography, comparative Semitic grammar
Semitic Literature: Syriac historical writing, Aramaic and Syriac epigraphy, History of Syriac Christianity: Relations between Syriac Christianity and Islam
CURRENT PROJECTS:
The Chronicle of Michael the Great: Secular History: Edition and translation.
Christian Monuments in Iraq: Trilingual (Arabic, English, French) text and photos
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND AFFILIATION:
Co-editor of Hugoye: Journal of Syriac Studies
President of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies: csss@chass.utoronto.ca; www.chass.utoronto.ca/~csss
Editor: Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies.
COURSES TAUGHT:
Undergraduate Courses
NMC 101Y: The Ancient Near East
NMC 270H: History of Syriac Christianity
NML220Y: Biblical Aramaic
NMC350Y: Syriac Literature in Translation
NML421Y: Classical Syriac
Graduate Courses
NMC1100Y: Introduction to Aramaic
NMC1101Y: Early Syriac Texts
NMC 1104Y: Aramaic Epigraphy
NMC1105Y: Syriac Historical Texts
NMC1106Y: Syriac Exegetical Texts
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Books
Catalogue of Syriac and Garshuni Manuscripts: Manuscripts Owned by the Iraqi Department of Antiquities and Heritage, CSCO 639 Subsidia 126, Leuven, Peeters, 2011; xxxix, 137pp
Syriac and Garshuni Inscriptions of Iraq, Répertoire des inscriptions syriaques, 2, Paris : Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres, 2010. Vol. 1: Texts, 737pp. + Vol. 2 (Plates), 285pp.
Jacob of Sarug’s Homily on the Partaiking of the Holy Mysteries, Translation and Introduction, Texts from Christian Late Antiquity volume 13, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2009, 49pp.
The Acts of Mar Mari the Apostle, translation with an Introduction and Notes, Writings from the Greco-Roman World 11, Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2005 = Leiden: Brill [hardcover]; xxxvii, 110pp.
The Chronicle of Zuqn?n Parts III and IV A.D. 488-775, Mediaeval Sources in Translation 36, Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1999; xxviii, 388pp.
Articles
“Piecing Together the Martyrdom of Cyrus of Harran,” Analecta Bollandiana (forthcoming this year)
“The Assembly of Seleucia on the Tigris according to the Acts of Mar Mari,” A. Panaino-G. Pettinato (eds), Ideologies as Intercultural Phenomena, Ravenna 2002, pp. 109-118.
“Trade Routes and the Christianization of the Near East,” Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 2 (2002), pp. 46-58.
“Recent Archaeological Excavations in Takrit and the Discovery of Syriac Inscriptions,” in Journal of the Canadian Society for Syriac Studies 1 (2001), pp.11-40.
“Tales About Sennacherib: The Contribution of the Syriac sources,” in P.M. Michele Daviau (eds.), The World of the Arameans II: Studies in Language and Literature in Honour of P.-E. Dion, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 2001, pp. 168-189.
“Arabisms in Part IV of the Chronicle of Zuqnin,'' in R. Lavenant, VII Symposium Syriacum 1996, Orientalia Christiana Analecta 256, Rome 1998, pp. 469-498
“Mitanni,” The Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996) vol. IV, pp. 36-38
“Christianity in the Eyes of the Muslims of the Jazirah at the End of the Eighth Century”: Parole de l'Orient 20 (1995) 339-357
“Notes on Syriac Inscriptions, I: The Inscription of Ma`ar-Zayta (Syria)”: Orientalia 64 (1995) 110-119, Tab.
“L’influence du Syriaque sur l’onomastique arabe chrétienne,” Parole de l’Orient 18 (1993) 275-289.
“The Ancient Name of Edessa,” Journal of Near Eastern Studies 51 (1992) 209-214.